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Re: Documentation on the OS/2 API?

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From: David Charlap
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 19:38
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In article <sunshine.713023974@convex.convex.com> sunshine@convex.com (Roger Sunshine) writes:
>Is there any online or printed documentation on the OS/2 API, available
>without having to purchase CSET or any other software product?  I'm 
>trying to learn OS/2 programming on a budget, and have ftp'd both the
>gcc native OS/2 port and the emx port, but haven't made much progress
>because I've no clue as to what the parameters to the various API
>functions are (let alone what they mean).  On line man page (a la un*x)
>like documentation in the help system would have been great if they were 
>included with OS/2 (well, I haven't found any documentation of that 
>sort yet).

The IBM toolkit ($79 from Programmer's Paradise, about $110 from IBM)
contains (among other things) on-line API reference material in the
form on .INF files (use the view.exe program to view them).

It also contains the IBM-standard OS2.H header hierarchy, and many
convenient utilities (like dialog box editor, an improved icon editor,
and nmake.exe, to name a few).

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Subject: Re: Documentation on the OS/2 API?
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